• Speaking Turtle - I love Native American sites. Abenaki wisdom rocks, bro!
• The Breast Chronicles - Finally, some eye candy for us horny heteros! Thanks Baylink, you did it again!
• Little Bobcats - A community baseball team for 4-6 year olds In Brooklyn. Could really use your help raising funds for equipment.
• OneSwellFoop.com - Your obedient Serpent…. Oxymorons for 2000, go over the edge… LMAO when I saw the pic of Lucy from the vitameatavegamin episode. Wendell needs to lay off that weblog and make more funny-ass stuff on that page…I had a blast!
• Mötley Crüe offers their new single “Hell On High Heels” as a free MP3 download…promoting their upcoming album “New Tattoo”, hitting stores, July 11th.
• Deadwood kicks ass too! Check out their music on MP3.Com (my fave: "Martyr")

Ahhh…a three-day weekend where we honor those who gave their lives so we can enjoy those barbecues, teenage girls in bikinis, and the unofficial start of summertime!

R.I.P. Rockstar was redesigned - My true story as a struggling musician in NYC. Bring your Kleenex, a lot of people die in this one (no cats, unfortunately). And you all wonder why I’m a crazy suicidal bastard! :0) Ironically, this went up at the same time Zeldman writes "Web designers aren’t Rock Stars"… HEE HEE!

Finally finished the flash version of Jack Hammer X-treme - They should be happy campers.

Sometime tonight: New listings of homes in the Poconos at Gresser Realty.

I had really nasty message here for Fierce.Com, Joe Jennett, Chris Donahue, Glenn Davis and every other self-appointed judge of "what’s good and what’s garbage" on the web….

Thanks to CyberPal, Charles Santana, another former resident of the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, a man who really did something his life….I saw the error of my ways.

Charles & I didn’t get out of that hellhole of a neighborhood using our fists, guns or telling people to "step outside"…we got out of the ‘hood using our minds and using our talent. Just below this post is a birthday wish for my youngest daughter. I don’t want her to think of me in any way but her "hero"….

So instead I said my piece on MetaFilter yesterday.

Hopefully some young people out there can learn a lesson about anger & hostility… it only breeds more anger & hostility. Find your self-esteem, and channel the negativity into something positive. You guys are just as smart and just as talented as the rest of us.

Thanks Charles

My "Baby Girl" turns five today.

• Redesigned the site - Now everything is a nice uniform look, which was everyone’s major complaint. I also made an "About Me Page"; of course you can still read my "bitter version" anytime you want.
• Battle of the Digital Divas - Microsoft launched their own "Digital Diva" last month. Fine and good, but what about the original "Digital Divas", who brought us "Grey Day"??? They’re furious and want it "Ceased & Desisted"…read all about it here!
• The rumors of my suicide isn’t 100% true. A lot of concerned friends (on and offline) have commented recently that I have sounded "Bitter" and "Mad at the World" lately. Well, I can’t talk about it right now, but yes, it’s been one fucking scary nightmare after another for The Tribe Called Brooks in the last few months… but I can honestly say there was a time where we all gave up hope and felt the only way out was in a body bag. I’m just now snapping out of a two-week state of depression.
• But hey, like all storms…they eventually subside, the sun shines, and a beautiful fucking rainbow streaks across the sky. Everyone out there who also feels like things are "out of whack"…HANG IN THERE! I see the light at the end of the tunnel for all of us…things can only get better. I’ll probably cover it all in my annual "Interview with Myself"
• Somewhere out in Ohio…Lenore Calderon turns 26. Happy Birthday cuz!

Just the way I always thought I’d go out…in style.

Don’t bother ratting me out to Carole …she knows all about it. In fact it was Carole. The Tribe called Brooks spent the night at TraveLodge in Tannersville Wednesday, because of the Lightning Storms all this week. Aaaanyway, to make a long story unbearable, I had a sit-down with her & her business parter, John Rose, the next day…and I am now officially an employee, and Erox Graphix is a subsidiary of Do It Right Construction….I am titled their "Creative Director"; handling ads, promos, a state-of-the-art computerized presentation, and their forthcoming website….best of all, telling freelance clients to "FUCK OFF!!!!!"